Olga Raevsky Hughes, Professor Emerita

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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: Centered on the literature and culture of the 20th century, specifically: 1) in-depth study of works of Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, and Remizov, with attention to their autobiographical prose; 2) history and literature of Russian emigration, with emphasis on the period between the wars; 3) Russian literary developments and cultural life of the early 20th century.

Selected publications:

Books

  • Vstrecha s emigratsiei. Iz perepiski Ivanova-Razumnika 1942-1945 godov. [An Encounter with the Emigration. From the Correspondence of Ivanov-Razumnik with Emigre Writers. (1942-1946)] Publication, introductory article, editing and annotating. (In Russian). Paris: YMCA Press; Moscow: Russkii Put’, 2001.
  • Russkii Berlin, 1921-1923. Co-edited with Lazar Fleishman and Robert P. Hughes. Paris: YMCA, 1983, 2nd ed: Paris: YMCA-Press – Moskow: Russkii put’, 2003.
  • Aleksej Remizov, Iveren’. [Collected, edited and annotated Iveren’, Aleksej Remizov’s late book of autobiographical prose.] Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1986.
  • The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak. Princeton University Press, 1974

Articles

  • “Aleksei Remizov’s Defense of the Russian Language.” Language, Literature, Linguistics. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialies, 1987.
  • “Volshebnaja skazka v knige A. Remizova Iveren’. Aleksej Remizov. Approaches to a Protean Writer. Vol. 16. UCLA Slavic Studies. Los Angeles: Slavica, 1987.
  • “O samoubiistve Vladimira Maiakovskogo v ‘Okhrannoi gramote’ Borisa Pasternaka.” Boris Pasternak and His Times. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1989.
  • “Alexey Remizov’s Later Autobiographical Prose.” Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth Century Russian Literature. Princeton University Press, 1990.
  • “Liturgicheskoe vremia i Evkharistiia v romane Pasternaka Doktor Zhivago,” Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, III. Russian Literature in Modern Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
  • “Ivanov-Razumnik v 1942 godu”, Russkaia kul’tura 20-go veka: Metropolia i diaspora. Blokovskii sbornik, 13. Tartu, 1996.
  • “L’action chretienne des etudiants russes et son Messager. Orthodoxie et culture,” La Russie en devenir. En hommage a Nikita Struve. Paris: Institut d’etudes slaves, 2002.
  • “Rozhdestvenskaia zvezda B. Pasternaka (Neskol’ko nabliudenii)”. Telling Forms. Thirty Essays in Honour of Peter Alberg Jensen. Stockholm, 2004.